Senior Health Policy Analyst Matthew Williams provided an update on the Health Practice Council (HPC) activities of interest to the NAIC’s Health Actuarial (B) Task Force (HATF) at their recent meeting in Denver, including an update on recent and upcoming HPC publications, other Academy activity and key 2025 events.

Senior Casualty Fellow Rich Gibson presented to the NAIC Antifraud (D) Task Force at their recent meeting in Denver on the P&C Committee on Equity and Fairness' recently published issue brief, Insurance Fraud: Impacts on Premiums, Claim Costs, and the Public.

The Risk Management and Financial Reporting Council’s (RMFRC) Financial Reporting Committee, ERM/ORSA Committee, and the Life Practice Council’s Life GAAP Reporting Committee released a white paper, Hedging and Risk Management. The paper examines how insurance companies—life, health, or property and casualty—employ similar techniques to manage insurance risk. It uses life insurance management of mortality risk to illustrate examples and describes capital markets’ risks and how companies have adopted hedging as a risk management tool.